"the story" continues and look forward to seeing you tomorrow at 3:00. "your world" with neil cavuto starts right now. have a great day. >> neil: all right. the cost of all of these rescue and recovery plans is going up dramatically up. and now concerns that the president's own call to pay for everything he has offered might be off from that. take a look at this. the cost of the american families plan originally thought to be 1.8 trillion over ten years now closer to $2.5 trillion. an increase of $700 billion. if you want it in perspective with the american rescue plan, the american jobs plan, the family plan, brace yourself here. the total cost now more than $7

trillion. the price goes up and how to pay for it, that leaves everyone with their hands up. welcome, everybody. i'm neil cavuto. this is "your world." we crunch the numbers, you decide whether what we crunch is going to crunch you and your bottom line. until now, of course the argument has been that the rich will pay for this. but now we're factoring in even the record-setting tax hikes to come and they don't come even close. let's go to kristin fisher right now at the white house on how all of this is resonating there, if at all. kristin? >> that's a lot of zeros to crunch there. but here's the deal. the white house, white house officials price the american family plan at $1.8 trillion. but according to new analysis, it says the white house has grossly underestimated that amount to the tune of $700 billion. it says the white house has underestimated just how much all of the things that it is

proposing in terms of child care costs, educational policies and did not take into account how much it would cost. jen psaki was asked about this new analysis in the briefing today. she says that she strongly disagrees with it. >> we strongly disagree with the analysis as do other independent experts. so we're going to rely on the majority of economic analysis out there and our own analysis here and we're confident we can reach both our job creation projections and of course do it in a way we can pay for it. >> the white house sticking by the $1.8 trillion number. president biden spoke about the american rescue plan. he was asked about how he intends to pay for the next two multi-trillion dollar spending bills. >> everything i'm proposing that be done to generate economic growth and employment and put us

in a position where we can outcompete any other country in the world with research and development and moving ahead i pay for. >> to be specific, the president wants to pay for it by increasing taxes on corporations and the wealthiest of americans. as you know, neil, republicans on capitol hill and some democrats just really have a big problem with this. here's mitch mcconnell. >> there's a number of democrats that share the view of senator manchin, that what is being recommended here jeopardizes the future of our entire country. the massive amount of debt to deal with an economy that is coming back on its own, getting back where it was in february of 2020. >> president biden saying today that he's still open to negotiations. still open to compromise with republicans and democrats like senator joe manchin. neil, president biden is going to be meeting with some of those

republicans here at the white house next week. neil? >> neil: all right. kristin, thanks very much. we're just taking a look at this, folks. we're not really playing politics with it. the numbers don't add up. the 2.5 trillion that the president wants in higher taxes largely on the wealthy will not come close to paying for the more than $7 trillion of spending planned right now. in fact, they have been adding to that spending figure because some of the base costs have risen precipitously including credits and how many get them for child care, free college tuition and the rest for those attending community college, that they were actually low-balling those numbers and hence this is the position we're in. so when the president talks about all of this being paid for, the reality is the mathematical reality is, we're nowhere near that. that is what is worrying a number of democrats on capitol hill. so amy, one of the things i was

intrigued with the story, democrats are getting a little anxious about this the closer we get to the mid-terms. they think this could come back to bite them. can you update me? >> exactly. i'm hearing more and more, neil, about the political ramifications of what they're proposing right now. some democrats have told me obviously they don't want to talk about it. some have talked openly. a lot of them are huddling to figure out what this will look like, how this plays out in the mid-terms and it's concerning to some of them. one source told me, we don't know what 2020 -- what the end game is here, what the biden administration -- what the biden white house is planning here. it looks like they're planning if they're going to lose so they're going to try to ram as much as they can right now while they have control of both houses. so that is sort of what is playing on the minds of some democrats. people think it's unsustainable. they would like to see more moderate democrats obviously but

they would like something that they can work with. they think that the $6 trillion number is just inexplicable and they won't explain it away in 2022. >> neil: yeah, especially when that rises to seven trillion or eight trillion. the argument has always been for the president, the thing he has going for him is the booming economy, things are turning around quickly. that that might negate whatever issues come up and how much money he's spending. republicans say you don't need to spend it. people are convinced they're not paying for it or thinking that will maybe welcome it especially if things look liar they're chugging along. what do you through? >> yeah, the white house thinks that they have the wind at their backs right now. joe biden has had a relatively easy time getting the covid relief bill passed. so he has the momentum going. this will be a tougher pill to swallow and given a lot of pause to some of these more moderate democrats. if he wants everyone to -- if

this goes into reconciliation and he needs his entire party, he's going to have a tough time trying to convince senators like manchin and cinema to get on board. >> neil: do you get the sense or the people you talk to, amy, that people don't care about deficits and debt anymore? i've heard this more often than not, even among republicans. it doesn't get the voter reaction in polls that it used to. i'm wondering if that is what they're hoping for. pay no attention to this, look at the shiny object of stimulus reports that are improving coming your way. >> i think that that's sort of what they're counting on. a couple of sources i spoke to kind of give some -- give some pause to that. they think that it's not -- that doesn't look good or as promising when they think that

voters figure out what is happening and how much money is coming outs and how much this will cost them. this won't be good for democrats in 2022. some actually point to obama and what happened after he pushed through the affordable care act. how that didn't play so well for democrats in 2010. even in president obama's term, they got shellacked. a lot of people are worried about what happens next, particularly because both houses are still close. >> neil: yeah. very, very close. great reporting on this, aim many. thank you very much. by the way, republicans and democrats have problems within their ranks right now this very minute and chad pergram here to talk about how each are dealing with those problems. chad? >> good afternoon, neil. liberals say spend more. moderates are concerned as amy alluded to. the issue for democrats on this is not the filibuster. it's the base problem is they

don't seem to have the votes to be able to pass many of these things. they're able to pin this on the republicans saying oh, we need to get 60 votes or get rid of the filibuster. the problem is the math on the democratic side of the aisle. you know what this reminds me of with the president's infrastructure plan and the other things that go with it? this reminds me of the healthcare fight in 1993 and 1994, hillarycare. they fought because it was such a complex bill. this infrastructure package is so complex and so many tax components to it that they fought all of 1993 and 1994 and never passed anything. they say they don't think they can get anything done until the fall at the earliest. and then there's these competing thoughts in the democratic caucuses, do they go for broke, try to pass everything because they have the house, senate and the white house and if the voters kick them out, fine, they passed these things or do they try to protect those majorities? you don't get the stars to align

often and that's the concern right now on the democratic side of the aisle. the bigger issue is this legislative fatigue. they pass these big covid-relief bills, the last one 1.9 trillion. again, can they caught up up $2, 3, $4 trillion in the next 18 months. >> neil: republicans dealing with the liz cheney thing. she could have the fight of her life remaining in leadership. how do things look for next week? >> interestingly, a lot of people don't think this is the fight of the life. i have not talked to a single republican that thinks that she survives that leadership challenge next week. there was a february vote, a referendum on her. that vote was 145 to 61. she survived mainly because she had the support of kevin mccarthy, the minority leader. that's not the case right now. really what this is, this is a proxy war between republicans, those afraid to break with former president trump and those

that want to get or the the more conservative values. president trump has been flexing his muscle. republicans based on what kevin mccarthy told them that they're better off sticking with president trump, that that is the pathway to flip these five or six seats and become the majority party in the house of representatives right now. here's the irony. a lot of criticism from president trump directed at liz cheney. she voted 93% with president trump and elise stefanik, the republican congress woman from upstate new york that is poised to step in to the leadership role next week if she's defeated in this leadership race, she only voted with president trump 78% of the time. that's remarkable. so you know, you have this battle inside the republican party between what are true conservative values or whether or not they're just the party of trump still. looks like it's more the party of trump right now. >> neil: all right, chad. thanks very much. we'll be exploring this very issue of the liz cheney phenomenon and why she's being

fingered out for calling the president some names and going after him when the president's called, well, liz cheney and mike pence and mitt romney lots of names. no problems there. and we'll explore the phenomenon during the great pandemic. nobody was making babies. the numbers are in and the birth rate the lowest since 1979. jimmy carter was president. we had long gas lines. the sony walkman was introduced and michael jackson's "off the wall" was a megaseller. what happened? ♪♪

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michael jackson's new album "off the wall" was cool. up to that date, the best selling all bum of all time. don't get me started of the other problem going on, the long gas lines in the second big oil embargo against this country by opec. you know what else was going on back then that mirrors what is happening today? people weren't having babies. we're at the lowest count of baby-making, if you will, in the united states history going back to 1979 when jimmy carter was president. a lot of rationale behind this. but the facts of the matter is, people were anxious during the pandemic and the scary world that it was to start the baby-making process. or could be just the fact that it's expensive or a problem or put off or whatever. bottom line, it's that great 70s show all over again. what happens now? let's go to kat timpf, we have

mike guns here with us and danielle mclaughlin. attorney. good read of "all things have have to do with our ability or nondesire to pro create." kat, to you first. in this world, what is it saying that people are holding back on children? >> yeah, i'm -- i am holding back on children even though i have been married for four whole days now. thank you. i honestly them that -- >> neil: guns, she's off the market. >> people have seen so much uncertainty, especially millennials. how many times has the stock market crashed and the covid? is there such a thing as a secure job or being secure in the american dream and your place in that? so obviously people are going to be a lot more afraid in the wake of these things to bring another human in this world when it's

becoming more and more uncertain how you can take care of yourself. >> neil: yeah, you know, i think -- we think about it, guns, a lot of people came out of the surveys that these are anxious times. i can understand not wanting to bring a baby in and the health risks around the pandemic. but the truth of the matter is, this trend has been going on for years. picked up steam here over the last year, i grant you. but something is going on. what do you think it is? >> yes. we've gone from baby boom to baby bust it seems the last couple years. i think at least the last contributing factors are fear and finance. fear for last year. you know, you couldn't go outside. did you want to welcome a newborn into the world when you don't didn't know what was going to happen? the financial aspect i think has been going on now a couple years where it's just the uncertainty of i don't know if i can take care of myself, my spouse and

now i'm going to have a child as well. a lot of that i think has to do with yes, i think student debt, credit card debt, i think job uncertainty across all sectors and industries and the workplace that people are just frankly worried about just the financial implications of having a child. you put that together with the fact that people are living longer and that maybe our parents, it was kind of instilled into them that you will go to college, if you go to college and you'll have children right afterwards and then all of that. now it's like people want to travel, people want to, you know, maybe figure out their financial situation before they go to that next step with their spouse. >> neil: you could be right. danielle, it's a phenomenon throughout the industrialized world, a little less so in asia, china, japan is a separate story, south korea is a separate story. this does seem to be a trend that took hold and actually took

hold during the pandemic. what do you think? >> absolutely, neil. if you look at the data month by month that the cdc has, november and december, people were thinking about conceiving in the pandemic year of the lowest month. plenty of children were born in 2020 but conceived in 2019. it's the end of year birth rate that was interested in. you're absolutely right. birth rates are declining across the world and in western europe and japan where they have an aging population. it's an economic crisis to put a point on it. it comes down to women having more economic opportunities, having more educational opportunities and the data also shows that women having children later in life and having fewer of them. >> neil: you know, i can certainly understand, kat when the whole pandemic started not knowing if you're in the march

and april when the shut down began, nine months after that maybe there's a reflection of the very latest data that would show a pickup in activity, people were trapped in their homes and all that. i don't want to go there. but my point going there is that maybe this picked up in the last few months and it's not reflected in the data. >> that's entirely possible. i think obviously when it's something this traumatic to us personally and to our bank accounts, it will take some time before we even start thinking about adding another human in our lives. >> neil: yeah. guns, that was your view, right? you just don't -- right, guns? that's what it comes down to. >> i love taking care of myself. that's a full time job on its own. you know what i mean? spring fever and things will reopen and people will go wild. here in new york city we're starting to see that. the last year of our lives, we haven't been able to meet

anybody else. i'm tired of video chatting with somebody that i don't really care about too much. you know what i mean? maybe we'll see this happening as time continues on. you can't deny that it's expensive to have a kid in the world these days. i'm not looking forward to that any time soon. keep me away. >> neil: always been expensive, always. it's not cheap. >> i'm more interested not only -- what i'd love to see is how many couples decided to have children after being trapped in an apartment with their children. >> neil: very good point. >> i'd be interested to see that breakdown. the last thing is, kat, congratulations and i hope you end this. we're counting on you. >> neil: absolutely. congratulations. the best days are ahead, guns. sorry to pass along the news if you didn't know already.

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>> neil: all right. liz cheney could be on the verge of losing her number 3 leadership post among house republicans next week. all because the president is not a fan. the "wall street journal" weighing in on that and making note of course of what has happened lately. steve scalise says he thinks liz cheney should go out of leadership here. what is interesting in this "wall street journal" piece, it says the president has been the one to make this an issue that it shouldn't be. quoting here, that even as president biden proposes the largest expansion of government in decades, mr. trump is spending his energy settling scores in his own party. he thrown his own vice president over the side because he did not go against the electoral college. as ever with mr. trump, everything is about him. the argument was that this

fixation on liz cheney and whatever criticism she's had of the president and saying that the election was not a big lie, the big lie is his complaining about that election and ruffling feathers in the party and beyond. kim strossel is here. many are worried about the house is theirs for the taking and this is a huge distraction. what is the sense you're getting? >> yeah. if you talk to those members, there's a lot of criticism now to go around. a lot of them are frustrated that the former president continues to go after individual members of the party, continues to essentially relitigate what happened last year when everyone has such an enormous job ahead of them, which is keeping voters and the media know cussed on the biden agenda.

the other hand, you've seen a lot of rise and discontent about liz cheney herself. you know, they had that vote in february. they kept her in the leadership. that was about her impeachment vote and her right to speak her conscious and vote her conscious. but they feel that she needs to stop at this point and that both sides are managing to elevate this, the back and forth between her and the president and keep this in the media when they would rather be looking at other things. >> neil: i can understand both sides wanting to stop. the fact of the matter is, after her february advance to hold on to her position, the president no fewer than some 27 times has targeted her and other republicans, mitch mcconnell, of course his vice president, relentlessly. mitt romney and on and on. and i guess they feel compelled to answer that.

is the message that republicans are sending liz cheney the president can say and rip anyone he wants, you, liz cheney, cannot? >> well, the president is sending a very mixed message. on the one hand he's going after these republicans. the other hand, he keeps saying that his number 1 interest is in making sure that republicans take back the house and the senate during the mid-terms. the reality is, you can't have both of those at the same time. if you're going to engage in these fights, again, the headlines and all of the focus is on what is already happened last year. it's not going to be on looking ahead. you're not going to move on. so, you know, i don't think this is necessarily the message to liz cheney, to answer your more specific questions. there's a lot of frustration right now among members, members that support liz cheney's right to speak out. but who also think that it would

be in the better interests of the party to answer these questions by saying you know what my view is but right now i'm focused on the agenda. >> neil: so the president can rip and everybody has to counter. thanks, kim strassel on all of that. by the way, a message from facebook regarding the president. he's still banned and in case you think it is hurting facebook and its bottom line, think again.

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>> neil: all right. facebook still suspending the former former president, donald trump. they will re-visit the issue but not for another few months. charlie gasparino has more. i think since this first started, facebook has been doing fine. what do you make of it? >> year to date, stock is up. profits are up. i think this is a longer term

problem for facebook though. they're starting to push on republicans in congress in a big way. you know, here's -- again, short term, not a problem. recent earnings were very good. you're getting republicans in congress who in the past said, okay, let's suck it up for all of these liberal woke companies, tech companies. you know, they're good for the economy. they're capitalists. let's forget about -- even if they're giving support to the left. i don't think that is -- that is eroding right now. if you get a republican administration, if you get republicans in congress and the house, you can really get a revoking of section 230, their protection, which allows them to put whatever they want on their website without legal consequence. if that happens, that stock will be cut in half. that is i think the long-term problem that they have. they are so angered at the

republican party. everybody in the party in leadership wants to basically make sure that facebook, amazon and these woke companies get a pound of flesh around them. if you don't have the republicans protecting you, you won't get elizabeth warren protecting you, you're screwed. so short term, not a problem, neil. but long-term, if they lose that section 230 protection, which they could, because the gop is moving against them, they're in deep, deep trouble. that stock gets cut in half. i will point out one other thing. one thing to ban donald trump. this is what conservatives can't believe. you ban him but you don't ban the liberals and some of the leftists and some of the dictators on the left that say worse stuff. i mean, it's -- one other thing. go look at that panel that decides is there sort of advisory board, whatever it is. it's very averse from i'd say a racial and from a gender

standpoint. it is not very diverse from a political standpoint. so i think -- i picked out one possible conservative that is at the cato institute on that board. so this has -- >> neil: in a few months they can readdress this depending how things are going. so timing is everything. we'll watch it, charlie. thanks. charlie gasparino following that development for us. also following a development with the first governor in the nation to say the extra unemployment benefits that keep people collecting the benefits through september, he just put a stop to it. why he said thanks but no thanks. after this. this past year has felt like a long, long norwegian winter. but eventually, with spring comes rebirth. everything begins anew. and many of us realize a fundamental human need to connect with other like-minded people. welcome back to the world.

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>> neil: thanks but no thanks from the montana governor, a republican, who was saying about all of these extra federal benefits that extended and added to unemployment. state unemployment benefits through september were preventing a lot of potential workers in his state from finding work. so he put an end to it saying right now it's far more important to get back to business. take a look. >> montana is open for business. we took action. when i got sworn in in january,

we lifted the impractical government mandates. we got rid of hours of operation, capacity limits. we got rid of the statewide mask mandate and lawsuit protection in place for businesses and nonprofits. now as we have opened up, employers can't find workers. it's across all industries. restaurants are having to shut down for days because they can't find cooks or wait staff. we made the decision yesterday, the supplemental unemployment benefits, honestly we got what we incented. we incented people not to work so we made the decision to opt out of the federal supplemental unemployment benefits and replace it with a back-to-work bonus. this is going to help employers and honestly there's dignity in work. there's also satisfaction in being self-sufficient. we made that decision yesterday and we're just getting a

phenomenal response from our business community. >> neil: so you're offering up the $1,200 to anybody that gets a job and hangs on to it for four weeks. you think that will do the trick? >> well, i think it's directionally correct. we have 25,000 people on unemployment as of food. if they're on unemployment, they have to go get a job. we know who is working. they'll be notified. if they stay at work for four weeks, they get a $1,200 check. it also means that they get that check, they can't then refile for unemployment. so this is a one-way ticket back in to the job force. >> neil: you know, governor, i notice you have a low unemployment rate. 3.8% unemployment rate. so the timing of this is with a strong backdrop for the economy as well. did that factor in to the timing

of this? >> well, most of what motivated this is just hearing from our small businesses. they can't open up. we have restaurants that are shutting down a couple days a week because they can't find staff. we're coming into tourist season. americans won't go to europe but they're welcome to come to montana, enjoy gracer national park, maybe get a line wet in a trout stream. if we don't have the wait staff, hotel, cooks, carpenters, we won't be ready for the visitors. this is about being ready and getting all of montana back to work. >> neil: what has been the reaction from washington on this decision? the labor department and other entities that were behind shepherding this process along with these extended benefits? >> well, there has been -- we've seen a continual stream of initiatives out of washington that disincent work. i think -- nobody starts life

thinking -- hoping that they're going to grow up and become dependent on the government. we need unemployment as a safety net for folks that find themselves in a rough spot. but it shouldn't be a permanent status. that's why we're doing away with these supplemental benefits, we're reinstituting work requirements and we're putting this incentive to go back to work. i'm a free market guy. we should be incenting work, not sitting at home. >> neil: i'm wondering too, i think there were 14,000 open job positions in your state last count. obviously employers have had a devil of a time trying to fill those slots. what if the math is not based on the unemployment benefits that folks are receiving, but just of not wanting the work at the positions available? >> well, you got to start someplace. we do have 14,000 jobs open in montana that we know of.

25,000 people on unemployment. it's a virtuous cycle. small business has two oppositions they hire, expand their hours of operation. the next thing that they do is hire two more people. so we've got to get our economy going again. incenting work just makes sense instead of incenting people to stay home. >> neil: all right. montana governor jim forte. there are a lot of small businesses and other businesses across the country that are welcoming a move like this. they're trying to get people to work for them but the competition that you get with the extended unemployment benefits make it prohibitive for anyone to leave home. what if more do because more governors do what this governor did? after this. managing type 2 diabetes? you're on it. you may think you're doing all you can to manage type 2 diabetes and heart disease but could your medication do more to lower your heart risk? jardiance can reduce the risk of cardiovascular death

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philadelphia today, talking to a lot of businesses included, the deal right now. speak of the restaurant businesses, are in such competition for the workers, talk about incentivizing work, if you can't find people willing to work for what you're paying, here's a crazy idea. you could pay them more. that's just what this restaurant here behind me is doing. it's about an eight or nine restaurant group based in philadelphia and they have instituted a $15 minimum wage. for all their employees so essentially paying more than you may see a lot of competition out here, this is 18th street in philadelphia. right across the street, restaurants. on the block, restaurants. they are competing for the same workers, they are paying workers more, they are called the marquis restaurant group and two questions. one, you pay them $15, maybe you have a better shot at keeping employees but costs go up, don't

they? do they get passed on to the folks who want to eat the food at your restaurant? perhaps so because that adds to the inflationary spiral that maybe we are starting to see right now but i would point out, again, if you can't find people who want to work for what you're paying, maybe you just pay the more. neil? >> neil: you know, when you think about it, jeff, certainly in the montana case, the key for a restaurant or a small business to hire people and move them away from the equivalent of $21 an hour that they make between the state unemployment compensation and the added federal benefit, that's a tough one for businesses to compete with. it depends on the locale, i get that. but i'm just wondering how in the meantime a lot of restaurants and others are dealing with this. they are always short-staffed, it seems. >> will you know, tom, this restaurant but i did talk to some others, one in particular

who said, i've got people willing to work but they want to work under the table, they want to be paid under the table so they can continue to collect those unemployment benefits and also make some money at the restaurant. and the person that i talk to say, well, you know, i'm not going to do that, and subject myself to penalties and all sorts of problems. but apparently, you make a good point, there are folks out there that if it wasn't for the money they are getting to stay home. if it wasn't for the others who just say, i don't want to go back to food service, i'm dealing with people all the time, i'm concerned about my health, until this virus totally gets beaten i don't want to go back to work, that's the reason i'm staying home, not because i'm just lazy. >> neil: yeah, and i hear a lot of that, it's a very demanding profession, we are still not out of the woods on this very great reporting as always, my friend. following all of this in philadelphia, a microcosm of what's happening across the country and it is an issue that

will be front and center on capitol hill as they continue to push these various spending packages that are getting a lot pricier, mike emanuel on all of that in the nation's capital. this is just another feature of good intentions possibly going bad or a little bit too good and a little bit too pricey and now they are worried about, a very strong economy, whether we need that, how is it falling out on the hill? >> from talking with lawmakers on the hill they are greatly concerned about constituents who are suffering through no fault of their own will loss benefits, who lost salary over the past months due to the covid lockdown but now that things are reopening, i've been interviewing people for small business segments in restaurants and other small businesses around the country and you say, i'm having trouble finding workers, having trouble staffing for what we expect to be a busy summer tourist season so the question on capitol hill is, when do you cut off their

funding? right now it's monday through labor day of this year, september the 6th, these enhanced unemployment benefits and i bet there will be pressure from a lot of folks who are hearing from their constituents about the challenges of getting people to go back to work to taper that september 6 but 1 thing our government struggles with his once they start giving people stuff, they have a hard time taking it back because that is quite unpopular from a lot of their constituents, a.k.a. voters. and so there's the struggle for lawmakers, policymakers in washington. once you give it out it's tough to take it away. neil? >> neil: the reality is the economy might not need to move at all, this might be compounding problems here, talk about the package of the president's initiative going from $6 trillion to $7 trillion to include all of the various programs and i know it's worrying a lot of democrats. speak on a question about it, they realize that yes, they do have control of washington at

this point but that could be short-lived, the margin in the house is very slim, a handful of seeds, and a 50/50 senate so 2022 could really change the dynamic of power here in washington. you could potentially be looking at a republican senate in 2023 and a republican house dealing with president biden and so there's a school of thought that says can i get as much across the finish line now because you may not have an opportunity in 2023 going forward but there are other folks who say you might want to be careful because the voters are going to have something to say, november 2022, neo. >> neil: michael, thank you very much, i guess there is logic to that, strike while the iron is hot, mike emanuel in washington and a reminder we are doing something we are going for you earlier, a letter, email, comments, texts are all well, and we are going to be featuring them on friday, every friday, we might extend it beyond that, it

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